Book Description
The inside story of business takeovers and the circus that ensues in the merger field.
Author : Isadore Barmash
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781587981739
The inside story of business takeovers and the circus that ensues in the merger field.
Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893122475
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Antitrust investigations
ISBN :
Author : Diana B. Henriques
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743202678
It almost seems that Thomas Mellon Evans was a man so far ahead of his contemporaries that he had moved into the shadows before the full force of his business style had dawned on the rest of corporate America. At every step in his career, he was barging in where few would follow -- at first. But follow they did, at last." -- from the Prologue The first in-depth portrait of the life and times of the trailblazing financier Thomas Mellon Evans -- the man who pursued wealth and power in the 1950s with a brash ruthlessness that forever changed the face of corporate America. Long before Michael Milken was using junk bonds to finance corporate takeovers, Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the tax code to obtain control of more than eighty American companies. Long before investors began to lobby for "shareholder's rights," Evans was demanding that public companies be run only for their shareholders -- not for their employees, their executives, or their surrounding communities. To some, Evans's merciless style presaged much that is wrong with corporate life today. To others, he intuitively knew what was needed to keep America competitive in the wake of a global war. In The White Sharks of Wall Street, New York Times investigative reporter Diana Henriques provides the first biography of this pivotal figure in American business history. She also portrays the other pioneering corporate raiders of the postwar period, such as Robert Young and Louis Wolfson, and shows how these men learned from one another and advanced one another's takeover tactics. She relates in dramatic detail a number of important early takeover fights -- Wolfson's challenge to Montgomery Ward, Young's move on the New York Central Railroad, the fight for Follansbee Steel -- and shows how they foreshadowed the desperate battle waged by Tom Evans's son, Ned Evans, to keep the British raider Robert Maxwell away from his Macmillan publishing empire during the 1980s. Henriques also reaches beyond the business arena to tally the tragic personal cost of Evans's pursuit of success and to show how the family dynasty shattered when his sons were driven by his own stubbornness and pride to become his rivals. In the end, the battling patriarch faced his youngest son in a poignant battle for control at the Crane Company, the once-famous Chicago plumbing and valve company that Tom Evans had himself seized in a brilliant takeover coup twenty-five years earlier. The White Sharks of Wall Street is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary man, whose career blazed across the sky and then sank into obscurity -- but not before he had provided the template for how American business would operate for the next four decades.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 1912 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher :
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Executive power
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Big business
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Annette Risberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135032548
Mergers and acquisitions remain one of the most common forms of growth, yet they present considerable challenges for the companies and management involved. The effects on stakeholders, including shareholders, managers and employees, must be considered as well as the wider implications for the economy, the level of competition and employment. By drawing on classic research perspectives and placing them alongside more recent alternatives, this book provides readers with a focused yet far-reaching introduction to the study of M&As. Each paper is set in context by editorial commentaries and reflects the important organizational and behavioural aspects which have often been ignored in the past. By providing this in-depth understanding of the mergers and acquisitions process, the reader understands, not only how and why mergers and acquisitions occur, but also the broader implications for organizations. The book is structured clearly into sections concerned with the issues that arise before, during and after the mergers and acquisitions process including motives and planning, partner selection, integration, employee experiences and communication. A unique collection of selected readings and contextualising commentary, this volume will greatly appeal to MBA and graduate students as well as experienced practitioners.